Obsbot Meet Flip Review: An Ingenious Folding 4K Webcam
Its smallest prior to the 4K Meet Flip was the Meet 2 — small enough to perch comfortably on a laptop lid but with a relatively clunky mount relative to its size and with a magnetic lens cover bound to get lost when you throw the camera into a bag without a case. For the Flip, Obsbot has designed a clever and even smaller alternative, addressing those drawbacks. It has a webcam-typical mount with a tripod socket built in, and the camera-and-mic section folds down to protect the lens and turn it off.
- ▪Its smallest prior to the 4K Meet Flip was the Meet 2 — small enough to perch comfortably on a laptop lid but with a relatively clunky mount relative to its size and with a magnetic lens cover bound to get lost when you throw the camera int
- ▪For the Flip, Obsbot has designed a clever and even smaller alternative, addressing those drawbacks.
- ▪It has a webcam-typical mount with a tripod socket built in, and the camera-and-mic section folds down to protect the lens and turn it off.
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Table of Contents Small sacrifices Lori Grunin/CNET Obsbot Meet Flip 8.0 $119 at Amazon Pros & Cons Very clever foldable design Really small Good exposure, focus and white balance adjustment and solid background blur performance Software works well on both Windows and MacOS Background removal is terrible Autoframing doesn't work consistently Mobile device operation is hit and miss and only works with the Obsbot Live app Bundled cable isn't great Can get hot Obsbot, maker of my favorite robotic webcams, has been shrinking its fixed-position models to complement laptops over time.
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